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DEFINITION: n. The type of headache you get from buying too many things with your credit card. Note: Symptoms do not usually appear until the following month.v. To buy yourself a huge credit card headache.
Verboticisms
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Billiousness
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: bill eee us ness
Sentence: Her recent bout of plastic splurgery left her with billiousness and a strange empty feeling in her purse.
Etymology: bilious (nausea) bill, IOU,
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COMMENTS:
love the plastic splurgery - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 12:17:00
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Postshoppangsyndrome
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: post/shop/pang/syn/drome
Sentence: When the credit card bill arrived, she immediately fell into postshoppangsyndrome where the only cure was a day of receipt seaching and merchandise returning.
Etymology: posttraumaticsyndrome + shop + pang (ache or throb)
Debtache
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: det-ake
Sentence: When she got the credit card bill, she went into lamentstrual syndrome and developed a paymentdoozy of a debtache.
Etymology: debt, headache
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COMMENTS:
I was *this* close to stealing your word. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:06:00
You stole my credache! That's what I get for sleeping in. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-04: 13:56:00
drunk yet Purple or high - it is the 4th of July - fireworks? - which reminds me of a song "Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight" - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 15:54:00
Well Jabber, ya cursed me twice. Now I have a song stuck in my head to accompany my sinus headache. Rained all day here. It's only 60 degrees. The highlight of my day was yanking up a garlic bulb that's the size of an onion. I may have to find a site to post a pic. (cracking open a beer in honor of the Starland Vocal Band) - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-04: 17:33:00
Way to go purple - happy 4th of July - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 19:22:00
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Painomonia
Created by: gonzo
Pronunciation: pain-o-monia
Sentence: He needs silence,darkness and money to cure a terrible painomonia
Etymology: pain- no money- pandemia
Bankruptalgia
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: bankrupt-al-gee-a
Sentence: In a fit of pique, Morgan went on a shopping expedition with the corporate credit card purchasing a fleet of vehicles, upgrading PCs for all the staff and treating them all to a long liquid lunch. In addition to their hangovers, they also suffered bankruptalgia the next month when the company went broke and they all lost their jobs.
Etymology: bankrupt + algia (pain) - inspired also by the rupture of a blood vessel in an aneurism
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COMMENTS:
Anything with "-algia" in it gets my vote. But don't hold me to that. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:04:00
Hey Clayton - there are 3 definitions today with algia in them - petaj's sounds the most severe though - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 15:46:00
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Enderythralgia
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌɛndəɹɪˈθɹældʒiə/
Sentence: Enderythralgia is quite common and most medical experts consider it a rational response, and thus not a true pathology. Endomelanalgia (pain caused by _not_ being in the red) is a much rarer and more serious condition.
Etymology: end- (in) + erythr- (red) + -algia (pain) "pain caused by being in the red"
Swipegraine
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Swipe-grain
Sentence: As soon as I made my last purchase, my cranium was throbbing with a wicked swipegraine.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
That is why I prefer to slide instead of swipe.. much easier on the noggin' - MisUndrstd, 2007-07-05: 22:07:00
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Buygraine
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: buy-grain
Sentence: after a hectic week on e-bay i started coming down with a very bad buygraine
Etymology: buy, migraine
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COMMENTS:
Sounds payinfull. Great word! - galwaywegian, 2007-07-04: 05:02:00
Yes, very good. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:03:00
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Buygrainal
Created by: amysmiles2000
Pronunciation: bi-gra-ah-nal
Sentence: My husband gets a buygrainal every January 13. That is after the mail delivery.
Etymology:
Credache
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: KRED-eyk
Sentence: After three hours on hold with her bank, Jackie's credache was debtamorphosing into an arrearache.
Etymology: credit + headache
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COMMENTS:
sounds debititating. - petaj, 2007-07-04: 03:46:00
sounds like a contageous strain of sellyoulitis. - galwaywegian, 2007-07-04: 06:24:00
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Comments:
Sounds debititating!
Oops, that was meant to be a comment on credache!
Today's definition was illustrated by Franke James. Thank you Franke. ~ James